Visit the website below "Cancer 101" and use this site to answer the following 7 questions in an EMAIL to ladams@homercenter.org:Cancer 1011. In your own words, what is cancer? 2. What is the difference between benign and malignant tumors?3. How are cancers named?4. Choose 4 risk factors and explain how they contribute to cancer.5. How can you find cancer before it worsens or spreads?6. What is a biopsy?7. How might cancer research brighten the future? p53 Gene 1. Copy the following questions into your document or email.2. Use the links below to answer the questions IN YOUR OWN WORDS. You will need to view both sites.3. You need to EMAIL your answers to: ladams@homercenter.org Cancer questions:
A) What is p53? B) On what chromosome might you find p53? C) What role does p53 play for humans? What exactly is its function? D) What happens if p53 is missing or mutated? E) Define the following terms: apoptosis, tumor suppression, cancer, cell cycle F) Why is p53 the "guardian of the genome"?
2. What is the difference between benign and malignant tumors?3. How are cancers named?4. Choose 4 risk factors and explain how they contribute to cancer.5. How can you find cancer before it worsens or spreads?6. What is a biopsy?7. How might cancer research brighten the future?
p53 Gene
1. Copy the following questions into your document or email.2. Use the links below to answer the questions IN YOUR OWN WORDS. You will need to view both sites.3. You need to EMAIL your answers to: ladams@homercenter.org
Cancer questions:
A) What is p53?
B) On what chromosome might you find p53?
C) What role does p53 play for humans? What exactly is its function?
D) What happens if p53 is missing or mutated?
E) Define the following terms: apoptosis, tumor suppression, cancer, cell cycle
F) Why is p53 the "guardian of the genome"?
LINKS
Cancer Link 1
Cancer Link 2
The Cell Cycle